Can you please give it up again for Mikaila [Ulmer]. What an amazing young lady. I will be back on the job market in seven months, so I hope she is hiring. 请大家再次为米凯拉·乌尔默鼓掌。多么了不起的年轻姑娘啊。七个月后我就要重返就业市场了，所以我希望她届时能招人。
I was just told backstage, when she was asked to introduce me, there were some folks who were organizing this amazing event that said, is she going to feel a little nervous speaking in front of 5,000 people? And so they asked her and she said, oh, no, I just spoke to 11,000 last week. So we were looking backstage -- she was on her tippy-toes with her entrepreneurial self. 我刚才在后台听说，当邀请她来介绍我时，有些组织这场盛大活动的人问，在五千人面前演讲她会不会有点紧张？于是他们问了她，她说，哦，不会，上周我刚在一万一千人面前讲过话。我们在后台看着——她踮着脚尖，浑身都是创业家的劲头。
So I know you're really here to see Michelle. Or Oprah. Actually, they're together, so you're here to see both of them. I cannot compete with them. But I did want to stop by and make one thing very clear -- I may be a little grayer than I was eight years ago, but this is what a feminist looks like. Of course, in my household there's no choice. 我知道你们其实是来见米歇尔的，或者奥普拉的。其实她们俩都在，所以你们是来见她们两位的。我可没法跟她们比。但我确实想过来讲清楚一件事——也许我比八年前头发更白了一些，但这就是女权主义者的样子。当然啦，在我家也没得选。
It is great to be with so many friends. One of my first acts as President was to establish the White House Council on Women and Girls, led by Tina Tchen and Valerie Jarrett, and they've worked with a lot of you very closely. We're so appreciative of those of you who helped not just make this event possible, but have guided a lot of our thinking across our Administration. 能和这么多朋友在一起真是太好了。我就任总统后的首批举措之一，就是成立白宫妇女与女童委员会，由蒂娜·陈和瓦莱丽·贾勒特领导，她们与在座许多人都有密切合作。我们非常感谢各位，你们不仅让这场活动得以举办，还为我们政府的诸多决策提供了指导。
We've got some outstanding members of Congress -- of course including my dear friend and one of the finest Speakers we've ever had, and hope to soon have again, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. And I want to thank all of you who worked so hard to make this event happen. Because this is an opportunity to reflect on how far we've come, and why it is we've got to keep going. 今天有多位杰出的国会议员到场——当然包括我亲爱的朋友、有史以来最优秀的议长之一，希望很快能再次出任议长的民主党领袖南希·佩洛西。我要感谢所有为筹办这场活动付出辛勤努力的人。因为这是一个契机，让我们反思我们已经走了多远，以及为什么我们必须继续前行。
It was almost 100 years ago that Alice Paul and her fellow suffragists were arrested for picketing outside the White House for the right to vote. Today, women make up more than half of the electorate. For the first time in history, a woman is a major party's presumptive presidential nominee. And we are here, at the first-ever White House Summit on the United State of Women. 大约一百年前，艾丽斯·保罗和她的女权运动同伴们因在白宫外举牌争取选举权而被捕。如今，女性占选民总数的一半以上。历史上第一次，一位女性成为主要政党的推定总统候选人。而我们今天正相聚于此，参加首届白宫"美国妇女状况"峰会。
Because of all of you, over the past seven years, we have significantly improved the lives of women and girls not just here at home, but around the world. And I could not be prouder of what we've accomplished. I want to talk about why it matters, and why we've got to do more. 因为有你们所有人，在过去七年里，我们显著改善了国内外妇女和女童的生活。我对我们取得的成就感到无比自豪。我想谈谈为什么这很重要，以及为什么我们必须做得更多。
Some of you may know that on Friday, my older daughter Malia graduated from high school. And I sat in the back and wore dark glasses. And only cried once, but it was -- I made this weird sound because I was choking back -- and people looked at me, people sitting in front of us turned back. And then I suppressed it. But I was thinking about how she is graduating at this extraordinary time for women in America. 你们中有些人可能知道，上周五，我的大女儿玛丽亚高中毕业了。我坐在后排，戴着墨镜。只哭了一次，但那一次——我强忍泪水发出了一个奇怪的声音——大家都看过来，坐在我们前面的人都转过头来了。然后我忍住了。但我一直在想，她毕业于美国女性发展的这个非凡时代。
The year I was born, in 1961, women made up less than 40 percent of college students. Today, you earn almost 60 percent of college degrees, make up roughly half of the workforce. Back then, the pill was still illegal in some states. And today, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, birth control is free. In the old days, women actually needed a husband to open a credit card. Today, more women are choosing to be single -- and all Americans are able to marry whoever they love. 我出生的1961年，大学生中女性占比不到百分之四十。如今，你们获得了近百分之六十的大学学位，占劳动力的一半左右。那时候，避孕药在某些州还是非法的。而今天，多亏了《平价医疗法案》，避孕是免费的。过去，女人要想开信用卡居然得靠丈夫。如今，越来越多的女性选择单身——所有美国人都能与自己所爱的人结婚。
Fifty-four years ago, Katherine Johnson did the behind-the-scenes math to put a man in orbit. Today, almost 60 women have blasted into space themselves. When I was growing up, fewer than 300,000 girls played high school sports. Today, because of Title IX, more than 3 million girls are on the field. Women are leading America at every level of society, from Hollywood to Silicon Valley, from the c-suite to the federal bench to the Federal Reserve. 五十四年前，凯瑟琳·约翰逊在幕后完成了将人类送入轨道的数学计算。如今，已有近六十位女性自己飞入太空。我小时候，参加高中体育运动的女孩不到三十万。如今，因为《第九条》法案，有超过三百万女孩在运动场上驰骋。女性正领导着美国社会的各个层面，从好莱坞到硅谷，从高管层到联邦法官席，再到美联储。
And that is progress. It's real and we have to celebrate it, but we also have to remember that progress is not inevitable. It's the result of decades of slow, tireless, often frustrating and unheralded work by people like Dorothy Pitman-Hughes and Gloria Steinem, who is here today -- people who opened our eyes to the discrimination, both subtle and overt, that women face. 这就是进步。进步是真实的，我们必须为此庆祝，但我们也要记住，进步并非必然。它是数十年缓慢、不懈、常常令人沮丧且默默无闻的工作的结果，是多萝西·皮特曼-休斯和今天也在场的格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆这样的人——是她们让我们看到了女性所面临的或微妙或公然的歧视。
People like Pauli Murray and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who insisted on equal justice under the law. People like Wilma Mankiller and Patsy Mink, who redefined what leadership looks like. And, yes, people like Hillary Clinton who've raised the expectations of our daughters -- and our sons -- for what is possible. 是保利·默里和露丝·巴德·金斯伯格这样的人，坚持法律面前人人平等。是威尔玛·曼基勒和帕特西·明克这样的人，重新定义了领导力的模样。是的，还有希拉里·克林顿这样的人，她提升了我们的女儿——也包括我们的儿子——对可能性的期望。
In other words, our progress has been the result of countless ordinary women and men whose names will never be written into the history books or chiseled on monuments, but who dedicated their lives to ensuring that America lives up to its promise of liberty and justice for all. 换句话说，我们的进步来自无数普通男女，他们的名字不会被写入史书，也不会被刻在纪念碑上，但他们毕生致力于确保美国兑现其人人享有自由与正义的承诺。
What's also true is, is that despite all that incredible progress, we are living in a time of great change, a time where people are economically anxious. Unemployment has dropped below five percent. Wages are growing again. But while we've made progress in narrowing the gap between rich and poor, it is still too big and the trend lines, because of globalization and automation, are still upon us. 同样真实的是，尽管取得了所有这些令人瞩目的进步，我们仍生活在一个大变革的时代，一个人们对经济感到焦虑的时代。失业率已降至百分之五以下。工资再次增长。但是，虽然我们在缩小贫富差距方面取得了进展，差距仍然太大，而且由于全球化和自动化，趋势仍然对我们不利。
You hear politicians peddle the fiction that blocking immigrants or cutting off trade or "big government" are all to blame, but we know what the causes are. The rise of global competition, the weakening of the labor movement and participation in unions, the automation of more jobs, the race of technology -- all these trends have the potential of leaving workers behind. 你们听到政客们兜售谎言，说什么阻止移民、切断贸易或"大政府"是罪魁祸首，但我们知道真正的原因是什么。全球竞争的加剧、劳工运动的削弱和工会参与度的下降、更多工作岗位的自动化、技术的飞速发展——所有这些趋势都有可能将劳动者甩在后面。
They let a few at the top do even better. And we see some of those divisions not just between groups, but within groups. There are women who have never had more opportunity, but there are a lot of women who are still stuck in the toughest of economic circumstances. 它们让顶层少数人获益更多。我们看到，这些分化不仅存在于群体之间，也存在于群体内部。有些女性从未拥有过如此多的机会，但也有很多女性仍被困在最艰难的经济环境中。
There is an important reason that so many working families feel like the system is rigged, and it's because the economy hasn't caught up to some of the enormous changes that have transformed America over the past 50 years. Those days when the average family was a dad who went to work every day and a mom who stayed at home and did all the unpaid labor -- that's not what our economy looks like anymore. Household and work arrangements come in all shapes and all combinations, and yet, our workplace policies still look like they're straight out of Mad Men. 有一个重要原因可以解释为什么这么多工薪家庭觉得体制被操纵了，那就是经济尚未跟上过去五十年来改变美国的一些巨大变化。过去那种典型家庭是父亲每天上班、母亲留在家里做所有无偿劳动的日子——那已经不是我们经济的样子了。家庭和工作的安排形式多样、组合各异，然而，我们的职场政策看起来还像是直接从《广告狂人》里搬出来的。
I will tell you, a lot of the problems that cross my desk are really hard to solve. If they end up on my desk, it's because other people couldn't solve them. But this issue of how we support working families, the policies that we could put in place that would make a meaningful difference, here we actually have solutions right in front of us. Just as we know what the problems are, we know what some of the solutions are. 我告诉你们，送到我办公桌上的很多问题都非常棘手。它们能到我桌上，是因为其他人解决不了。但在如何支持工薪家庭这个问题上，在我们可以推行哪些能产生实质影响的政策上，我们其实就有现成的解决方案。正如我们知道问题所在一样，我们也知道一些解决方案。
We need equal pay for equal work. We need paid family and sick leave. We need affordable child care. We've got to raise the minimum wage. If we're truly a nation of family values, we wouldn't put up with the fact that many women can't even get a paid day off to give birth. We should guarantee paid maternity leave and paid paternity leave, too. That's how you value families. That's how employers retain great workers. And it's good for women -- because when childcare falls disproportionately on mothers, as it often does, it makes it that much harder to advance in their careers. 我们需要同工同酬。我们需要带薪家事假和病假。我们需要负担得起的儿童照护。我们必须提高最低工资。如果我们真是一个重视家庭价值的国家，我们就不能容忍许多女性连生孩子的带薪假期都没有。我们应该保障带薪产假，也要保障带薪陪产假。这才是重视家庭的方式。这才是雇主留住优秀员工的方式。这对女性也有好处——因为当照护孩子的重担不成比例地落在母亲身上时，这往往会让她们更难在事业上晋升。
So we've got to retool our system so that modern families and modern businesses can thrive. And let me be clear, this is not about big government, or expanding some fictional welfare-and-food-stamp state, the 47 percent mooching off the government. It is accounting for the realities of how people live now, today -- the necessities of a 21st century economy. 所以我们必须重构我们的体制，让现代家庭和现代企业都能蓬勃发展。让我明确一点，这不是什么大政府，也不是在扩大什么虚构的"福利食品券"国家，不是什么百分之四十七的人靠政府过日子。这是在正视人们当下的生活现实——二十一世纪经济的必需品。
We've gotten some things done through executive actions. When we had a cooperative Congress, we got a whole lot more done. So far, a lot of Republicans in Congress have been unwilling to act on these agenda items that I just mentioned. But we just keep on looking for ways to get stuff done. They keep on waiting for this whole lame duck thing to happen. Let me tell you, it will happen as soon as I've elected a really good successor to carry on our policies. But until then, we're working pretty hard. 我们通过行政行动做成了一些事。当国会愿意合作时，我们做成的事情就多得多。到目前为止，国会中的许多共和党人一直不愿就我刚才提到的这些议题采取行动。但我们一直在寻找办法推进工作。他们一直在等待"跛脚鸭"时期的到来。告诉你们吧，等我选出一位优秀的继任者来延续我们的政策，那一天就会到来。但在此之前，我们还在努力工作。
But we've made progress. The first bill I signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. And I know some of you have seen Lilly here today. We passed the Affordable Care Act to give more Americans the security of health care coverage so that not only people without health insurance could finally get it, but people who had health insurance were treated fairly, so that, for example, no insurer could charge you more just for being a woman. Dry cleaners are next. Valerie, we need to work on that, don't we? Those little blouses of yours -- I don't know why they charge so much. 但我们确实取得了进展。我签署的第一项法案就是《莉莉·莱德贝特公平薪酬法》。我知道你们中有些人今天在这里见到了莉莉。我们通过了《平价医疗法案》，让更多美国人获得了医疗保险的保障，这样不仅没有医保的人终于能得到保障，有医保的人也能得到公平对待，比如，任何保险公司都不能因为你是女性就多收保费。下一个该轮到干洗店了。瓦莱丽，我们得在这方面努努力，对吧？你的那些小衬衫——我真不知道为什么要收那么多钱。
So my Administration has taken what action that we can. And we've strengthened equal pay protections and paid sick leave for federal contractors, enhanced work flexibility for all federal employees, raised the minimum wage for federal contract workers, extended overtime-pay protections to over four million workers across the country. 因此，本届政府已经采取了一切力所能及的行动。我们加强了对联邦承包商的同工同酬保护和带薪病假规定，提高了所有联邦雇员的工作灵活性，提高了联邦合同工人的最低工资，将加班费保护扩大到全国四百多万劳动者。
We try to set a good example providing my staff with 12 weeks of paid parental leave. And by the way, we've been having a lot of babies -- I've noticed -- in the White House. Which I'm happy about -- I love babies. They bring them into the Oval Office and they make me feel good. 我们努力树立好榜样，为我的工作人员提供十二周的带薪育儿假。顺便说一句，我们有很多宝宝降生——我注意到——在白宫里。这让我很高兴——我爱宝宝。他们被带进椭圆形办公室，让我心情很好。
This is the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do. And the great news is, we're not the only ones doing it. You've got cities and states and businesses across the country that are adjusting to meet the needs of today's workers. In fact, today we can announce that 28 of America's leading businesses are committed to closing the gender pay gap. 这是正确的事，也是明智的事。好消息是，不只是我们在这样做。全国各地的城市、州和企业都在调整，以满足当今年劳动者的需求。事实上，今天我们可以宣布，美国二十八家领先企业承诺将缩小性别薪酬差距。
We should encourage more businesses to join them. We should shop and frequent those companies that are doing the right thing because the truth is, most folks agree with each other on this. We don't have to have Congress agree with us -- we can go ahead and make progress without waiting for them. They'll catch up eventually. They're usually a lagging indicator on these issues. 我们应该鼓励更多企业加入它们的行列。我们应该光顾那些做正确事的公司，因为事实是，大多数人在这个问题上意见一致。我们不需要国会同意——我们可以不等他们就自行取得进展。他们最终会跟上的。在这些问题上，他们通常都是滞后指标。
If we really want workplace policies that work for everybody, I will say, though, it would help if we had more women in Congress. It would help if we had more women in the corner suite. I have a corner suite, by the way. Just making that connection for you. 不过，如果我们真的想要适用于所有人的职场政策，我得说，如果国会中有更多女性，情况会好很多。如果高管套房里有更多女性，情况会好很多。顺便说一句，我就有一间高管套房。我只是帮你们联想一下。
If we are going to truly change our policies and our politics, then we're also going to have to change something else, though. We're going to have to be honest with ourselves. We're going to have to change something else. We're going to have to change the way we see ourselves. And this is happening already, but I want us to be more intentional about it. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but we're still boxed in by stereotypes about how men and women should behave. 不过，如果我们真的要改变我们的政策和政治，我们还得改变另一件事。我们必须诚实地面对自己。我们必须改变另一件事。我们必须改变我们看待自己的方式。这已经在发生了，但我希望我们能更有意识地去做。我知道我在这里是在对唱诗班布道，但我们仍然被关于男女应有的行为方式的刻板印象所束缚。
As the great Shirley Chisholm once said, "The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begin when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'" And that has consequences for all of us, whether we're men or women, black, white, gay, straight, transgender or otherwise. 伟大的雪莉·奇泽姆曾说过："对女性的情感、性别和心理刻板印象，从医生说'是个女孩'的那一刻就开始了。"这对我们所有人都有影响，无论我们是男是女，是黑人、白人，是同性恋、异性恋、跨性别者还是其他。
We need to keep changing the attitude that raises our girls to be demure, and our boys to be assertive; that criticizes our daughters for speaking out, and our sons for shedding a tear. 我们需要继续改变那种把女孩培养成娴静端庄、把男孩培养成争强好胜的态度；那种批评女儿敢于发声、批评儿子流泪的态度。
We need to change the attitude that punishes women for their sexuality but gives men a pat on the back for theirs. We need to change an Internet where women are routinely harassed and threatened when they go online. 我们需要改变那种因女性的性取向而惩罚她们、却因男性的性取向而拍拍他们后背表示赞许的态度。我们需要改变一个女性上网就经常遭到骚扰和威胁的互联网环境。
We need to keep changing the attitude that congratulates men for changing a diaper, stigmatizes full-time dads, penalizes working moms. 我们需要继续改变那种男人换个尿布就值得表扬、全职爸爸却被污名化、职场妈妈却受惩罚的态度。
We need to keep changing the attitude that prioritizes being confident, competitive, and ambitious in the workplace -- unless you're a woman. 我们需要继续改变那种在职场推崇自信、竞争和雄心——除非你是女性的态度。
We need to keep changing a culture that shines a particularly unforgiving light on women and girls of color. About how they look, about how they feel, about what they should or should not do. Michelle will talk about this in a little bit. She's talked about this. Despite her extraordinary achievements and success, the fact that she is -- she is an American original, she is unique, but she still had times where she's had doubts, where she's had to worry whether she was acting the right way or looking the right way, or whether she was being too assertive or too angry. You remember that? 我们需要继续改变一种对有色人种女性和女孩格外苛刻的文化。对她们的外表、她们的感受、她们该做什么不该做什么横加指责。米歇尔待会儿会谈到这个。她谈过这个话题。尽管她取得了非凡的成就和成功，尽管她——她是独一无二的美国人，她是独一无二的，但她仍然有过自我怀疑的时候，她仍然要担心自己的行为方式或外表是否正确，或者自己是不是太强势、太愤怒了。你们还记得吧？
So we've been working to change these stereotypes. That's why we're encouraging more girls to pursue their love for science, and technology, and engineering, and math. That's why we've highlighted women trailblazers, and encouraged media to depict more examples of women in STEM -- because it's hard to be what you can't see. It's why we've launched a movement of women and men to fight campus sexual assault -- because it's on all of us to stop it. 所以我们一直在努力改变这些刻板印象。这就是为什么我们鼓励更多女孩追求她们对科学、技术、工程和数学的热爱。这就是为什么我们宣传女性先驱者，鼓励媒体展示更多STEM领域女性的榜样——因为你看不到的东西，你就很难成为那样的人。这就是为什么我们发起了一场男女共同参与的运动，打击校园性侵犯——因为制止它是我们所有人的责任。
It's why we're changing the culture in our military, from the top down, to take this issue seriously. It's why we're working with communities, and businesses, and foundations to rethink workplace policies, and fund women entrepreneurs, and expand female leadership, and create more opportunities for girls and women of color -- everybody has a role to play in America. 这就是为什么我们正在自上而下地改变军队文化，认真对待这个问题。这就是为什么我们正与社区、企业和基金会合作，重新思考职场政策，资助女性创业者，扩大女性领导层，为有色人种女孩和女性创造更多机会——在美国，每个人都有自己的角色。
And even as we make progress at home, we look abroad and we know that any country that oppresses half the population -- that doesn't let them go to school or work, and does not give them control over their own bodies -- that's a society that will not work over the long term. It will not reach its potential. And this is a national security issue. As Commander-in-Chief, I've seen how the ideology that leads Boko Haram to kidnap schoolgirls, and leads ISIL to enslave and rape women is the same ideology that leads to instability, and violence, and terrorism. There's a connection there. 即使我们在国内取得进展，我们放眼海外也知道，任何压迫一半人口的国家——不让她们上学或工作，不让她们掌控自己的身体——这样的社会长远来看是行不通的。它无法发挥自身的潜力。这是一个国家安全问题。作为总司令，我亲眼看到，导致博科圣地绑架女学生、导致伊斯兰国奴役和强奸妇女的意识形态，与导致不稳定、暴力和恐怖主义的意识形态是同一种。它们之间存在关联。
So we need to be clear about what we're about, what we stand for. Because organizations and ideologies that are repressive and cultivate violence and anger -- those are -- there's a running thread, and it's dangerous, and poses a threat to pluralism and tolerance and openness. 所以我们必须明确我们的立场、我们的主张。因为那些压制性的、培育暴力与愤怒的组织和意识形态——它们之间——是一脉相承的，这很危险，对多元主义、宽容和开放构成威胁。
So I've made advancing gender equality a foreign policy priority. And we've implemented a comprehensive strategy to end gender-based violence around the world, from prevention, to treating survivors, to bringing perpetrators to justice. And we're helping to remove barriers that prevent women from participating fully in their societies. We're empowering the next generation of women by investing in adolescent girls and advancing the Let Girls Learn initiative to get 62 million girls into schools. 因此，我将推进性别平等作为外交政策的优先事项。我们实施了一项全面战略，在全球范围内消除基于性别的暴力，从预防到救助幸存者，再到将施暴者绳之以法。我们正在帮助消除阻碍女性充分参与社会的障碍。我们通过投资于青春期少女和推进"让女孩上学"倡议，让六千二百万女孩走进校园，赋能下一代女性。
This is the future that we're building, one where all of us here at home and around the world are free to live out our dreams. Where our children's aspirations aren't segregated into pink and blue. Where working families don't have to choose between taking care of a loved one and earning a paycheck. Where women and girls, no matter where they live, are free from fear of violence -- including gun violence. 这就是我们正在建设的未来，一个我们所有人——无论在国内还是世界各地——都能自由追寻梦想的未来。一个我们孩子的志向不会被粉色和蓝色划分的未来。一个工薪家庭不必在照顾亲人与赚取薪水之间做出选择的未来。一个无论生活在哪里，妇女和女童都免于暴力恐惧——包括枪支暴力——的未来。
Where hatred against women, or hatred against the LGBT community, that doesn't neatly fit into some predetermined notion of how people should be or how they love -- where that is no longer the operative rule in any society. A future where women lead half our businesses, make up half of Congress. Where our girls know they can hold any job, and run any company, and compete on any field, and perform on any stage, and science the heck out of any challenge. That's the future we're trying to build. 一个对女性的仇恨、对LGBT群体的仇恨——那些不符合人们对人应该是什么样、应该爱谁的预设观念的仇恨——不再是任何社会通行规则的未来。一个女性领导我们一半的企业、占国会一半席位的未来。一个我们的女孩知道她们可以胜任任何工作、经营任何公司、在任何赛场上竞争、在任何舞台上表演、用科学攻克任何挑战的未来。这就是我们努力建设的未来。
And the good news is this is the future my daughters' generation already believes in. They believe every door is open to them. They're not engaging in any sort of self-censorship. They're not going to hold themselves back. It couldn't occur to them that they couldn't rise to the top of whatever field they choose. It wouldn't occur to them not to accept all people, no matter how they identify or who they love. They think discrimination is for losers. They think it's weird that we haven't already had a woman President. They expect the world to catch up to them. 好消息是，这正是我女儿那一代人所相信的未来。她们相信每扇门都向她们敞开。她们不会进行任何自我审查。她们不会退缩。她们从没想过自己不能在选择的任何领域登峰造极。她们从没想过不接纳所有人，无论对方的性别认同如何、爱的是谁。她们认为歧视是失败者的行为。她们觉得我们还没有出过一位女总统简直不可思议。她们期待世界跟上她们的步伐。
They expect the world to catch up to them, and I have no doubt that we will. It will take leadership. It will take the right policies. It's going to take creating more opportunities. It requires us telling each other and our children the right stories -- because the stories we tell matter. 她们期待世界跟上她们的步伐，我毫不怀疑我们会做到。这需要领导力。需要正确的政策。需要创造更多机会。需要我们给彼此、给我们的孩子讲正确的故事——因为我们讲的故事很重要。
We admire the men who shaped our country, and rightfully so, the men we see as heroes -- from Alexander Hamilton to Muhammad Ali -- for their confidence and their courage in believing they could change our nation, this idea of self-creation, that there's nothing holding us back. In them, we see America itself, constantly reinventing itself, fearless, looking out over the horizon at the next frontier. 我们钦佩塑造了我们国家的男性，这是理所当然的，那些我们视为英雄的男性——从亚历山大·汉密尔顿到穆罕默德·阿里——钦佩他们的自信和勇气，他们相信自己可以改变这个国家，这种自我创造的理念，那种没有什么能阻挡我们的信念。在他们身上，我们看到了美国本身，不断重塑自我，无所畏惧，眺望着下一个边疆的地平线。
But our country is not just all about the Benjamins -- it's about the Tubmans, too. We need all our young people to know that Clara Barton and Lucretia Mott and Sojourner Truth and Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Height, those aren't just for Women's History Month. They're the authors of our history, women who shaped their destiny. They need to know that. 但我们的国家不只有"本杰明"们——也有"塔布曼"们。我们需要让所有年轻人知道，克拉拉·巴顿、卢克丽霞·莫特、索杰纳·特鲁思、埃莉诺·罗斯福、多萝西·海特，她们不只是属于"妇女历史月"的。她们是我们历史的书写者，是塑造自己命运的女性。年轻人需要知道这一点。
A woman did not magically appear on a space shuttle. It took Sally Ride's relentless commitment, Mae Jemison's boundless courage to shatter that glass ceiling. A group of California farm workers -- they weren't just handed their rights. It took Dolores Huerta organizing and mobilizing, fighting for the dignity and justice they deserved. 女性不是凭空出现在航天飞机上的。是萨莉·莱德不懈的坚持，是梅·杰米森无比的勇气，才打破了那层玻璃天花板。一群加州农场工人——她们的权利不是天上掉下来的。是多洛雷斯·韦尔塔组织动员，为她们应得的尊严和正义而斗争。
Rosa Parks wasn't simply a tired seamstress who sat down by accident. She was a civil rights leader with the eye of a strategist and the heart of a warrior. She had the confidence to board on that bus, the courage to risk her own life and liberty for the sake of ours. History did not fall into her lap -- she seized that moral arc and she bent it with her bare hands in the direction of justice. 罗莎·帕克斯不只是一个累了偶然坐下的女裁缝。她是一位有着战略家眼光和战士之心的民权领袖。她有勇气登上那辆公交车，有勇气为了我们冒着失去生命和自由的风险。历史不是落到她腿上的——她亲手抓住了那条道德弧线，用她的双手将它弯向正义的方向。
That's the story that's still being written, today, by our modern-day heroes like Nancy Pelosi or Sonia Sotomayor or Billie Jean King or Laverne Cox or Sheryl Sandberg or Oprah Winfrey or Mikaila Ulmer or Michelle Obama -- the countless ordinary people every day who are bringing us closer to our highest ideals. That's the story we're going to keep on telling, so our girls see that they, too, are America -- confident and courageous and, in the words of Audre Lord, "deliberate and afraid of nothing." 这就是今天仍在书写的故事，由我们当代的英雄们书写——南希·佩洛西、索尼娅·索托马约尔、比利·简·金、拉弗恩·考克斯、谢丽尔·桑德伯格、奥普拉·温弗瑞、米凯拉·乌尔默、米歇尔·奥巴马——是每天都在让我们更接近最高理想的无数普通人。这就是我们要继续讲述的故事，这样我们的女孩就会知道，她们也是美国——自信而勇敢，用奥德丽·洛德的话说，"从容不迫，无所畏惧"。
That's the country we love, and I've never been optimistic -- as optimistic as I am now that we're going to create a country where everybody, no matter who they are or what they look like or where they come from or who they love, can make of their lives what they will. And together, we can build a world that's more just and more prosperous and more free. That's a job for all of us. 这就是我们热爱的国家，我从未如此乐观——像现在这样乐观，相信我们将建设一个国家，让每一个人，无论他们是谁、长什么样、来自哪里、爱谁，都能活出自己想要的人生。我们将共同建设一个更加公正、更加繁荣、更加自由的世界。这是我们所有人的使命。
God bless you. 愿上帝保佑你们。
God bless the United States of America. 愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
Thank you. 谢谢大家。
